164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe

January 14th, 2021 · 1 hr 45 mins

About this Episode

When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?!
Try a gas-huffing, pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a ecological Frankenstein's monster, but did his smooth-brained science cause his undoing?